Michael Chuter
Director of Organisational Support
Michael leads NCB’s Organisational Support
directorate, which combines NCB’s core support functions of
finance, HR, IT, facilities and company secretariat with NCB’s key
service functions of membership, marketing, training, publishing,
fundraising and business development. Combining these functions
into a single directorate has enabled NCB to improve the delivery
of its internal services, to better coordinate its fundraising and
commercial activities and to increase the support it offers to
other organisations in the children and young people’s sector.
Prior to joining NCB Michael was Head of Finance and Enterprise
at the Foyer Federation, the UK’s largest network of youth housing
linked to training and personal support; and at the same time was
Chair of NHS Greenwich, the primary care organisation for the
London Borough of Greenwich. At Foyer; in addition to his
responsibilities for finance, strategy, HR, IT and governance, he
was a vocal advocate for social enterprise and produced a number of
residents’ showcases.
Michael brings a wealth of commercial and strategic experience
to NCB, but also a passion for social change and says he employs
the same pragmatic approach that he used in commerce, but now
applies it in ways more suited to a social environment. Though he
would readily admit this has not always been easy, he resolutely
believes that the objectives of commerce and charity are nothing
like as dissimilar as one might at first have thought.
Michael is a fellow of both the Institute of Chartered
Accountants and the Institute of Internal Auditors and has spent
most of his working life in the retail and consumer sectors. But,
after a 30 year career, which included spells at Gillette,
Spillers, Hertz, Burton and Evans, in 2003 he moved into the not
for profit sector.
Outside of work; Michael writes and produces an annual Christmas
pantomime, performs in amateur musicals and plays squash, tennis
and atrocious golf.